Please, put poor Pete out to pasture
by Washington Examiner
January 13, 2023 12:01 AM
During the 2020 presidential primary, candidate Joe Biden released a video savaging former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg for his lack of competence and relevant experience for the White House. Over and over again, Biden's video highlighted how the onetime Democratic mayor of South Bend accomplished little, mostly making cosmetic changes to the small, slightly run-down Midwestern city where he had grown up.
The video was removed after Biden won the 2020 election and named Buttigieg secretary of transportation, a position he still holds. But that old video is highly relevant given recent events.
For the past two years, the United States has been lurching from one transportation crisis to the next, and Biden's man in charge of transportation is as feeble as ever. The supply chain crises and threats of a railroad strike were bad enough. But they have given way to mass flight delays and cancelations. One airline, Southwest, completely melted down over the holidays due to the malfunctions of its sclerotic computers. Buttigieg waxed indignant and demanded that the airline get its house in order. But nemesis follows hubris, and Buttigieg's accusations of incompetence against the airline rebounded on him a few days later when his own computer system at the Federal Aviation Administration caused even worse flight delays and cancellations across all airlines.
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